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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 year ago.

This process has been closed by olasd on 2024-05-19: no further modifications are possible.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2023-07-24:
I support Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Philip Wyett on X and Y
for 2 years, and I consider them as having sufficient technical competence.

I don't usually advocate when I "just" sponsor less than 20 packages for a person.
I decided to gran him an exception, because:
1) he has strong motivation in keeping filezilla/libfilezilla in a good shape in Debian.
2) he is fast in acting and answer to questions/emails
3) he knows how ABI/API works, and he does "transition" the two packages successfully since
when he started working on them (its a 2 packages transition, but he knows his stuff!)
4) libfilezilla bumps ABI on each release, so being DM for him is probably painful.
5) he did work on other packages such as pingus, rednotebook.
6) I think having them as DD is a great value for Debian project.

I have personally worked with Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>
(key 70A0AC45AC779EFE84F63AED724AA9B52F024C8B) for 2 years, and I know Philip Wyett
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Addendum:
For nm.debian.org, at 2024-01-22:
After the closing of the previous application, I asked Philip to do *many* Debian related things.
It turned out that the application was a little bit premature, Debian is not just
about having technical skills (and he strongly has them), but
also about helping newcomers, understanding how the community is built and how to interact each
other without loosing the objective that has to be to bring an OS to end users.
For this reason, after sponsoring a ton of packages reviewed by him on mentors.debian.org, and giving
them DM rights for the packages he maintains, I'm more confident about his ability to become
a full unsupervised DD.

Signed with key 9297 8A6E 195E 4921 825F 7FF0 F34F 0974 4E9F 5DD9

locutusofborg

2024-01-22

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2024-01-22 17:30	locutusofborg	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2024-01-22 17:30	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes